The Localization Institute is excited to offer several interactive seminars and round tables as part of the upcoming Global Toolbox Day at LocWorld52 in Monterey, California on Monday October 28 2024. As a co-organizer of LocWorld Conference, the Localization Institute offers these seminars and round tables as separate, stand-alone events. You do not need to be registered for LocWorld52 Conference in order to sign up for these offerings. If you would like to register for the main conference of LocWorld52, please visit the LocWorld website.
Please Note: Global Toolbox sessions have size limits that cannot be exceeded – register now to reserve your seat!
Full Day Sessions – Lunch Included
Bigger, Better, Faster Round Table: Real-Life AI Adventures: From Imagination to Integration
October 28 from 9:00am – 5:00pm
Registration Fee: $650 – full day price (lunch included)
Your registration for this session includes lunch.
10% discount for 3 or more students from the same company – please contact jill@
Session Description:
Join us for an engaging workshop exploring the dynamic intersection of AI and human expertise in localization and translation. Dive into real-life use cases of prompt engineering and the integration of AI within tech stacks, emphasizing the human element. Compare AI strategies for startups, scaleups, and enterprises, highlighting real-life use cases in localization workflows. Discuss how enterprises are maintaining human relevance alongside AI advancements, and tackling challenges like legal frameworks, tech integration, risk management, and internal pushback. Engage in our “Imagine the Future” session to creatively envision upcoming trends. This workshop offers insights and strategies to harmonize AI innovation with human-centered approaches.
Agenda:
- Intersection of AI and human expertise
- AI integration with localization tech stacks
- Organizational aspects and risk management
- “Imagine the Future” session
Key Takeaways:
Target Audience: Everyone
Attendee Experience Level: Beginner to advanced
Round Table Organizers:
- Daniel Goldschmidt
- Oleksandr Pysaryuk (GitLab)
Advisory Board Members:
- Antoine Rey, Argos Multilingual
- Christiane Bark, Localization Consultant
Speakers:
- Maria Paez Playa, Meta
- Aki Ito, LocalizationGuy GK
- Katell Jentreau, Expedia Group
Location:
Maximum number: 25
Minimum number: 10
Please note:
The Round Table’s success depends on people being willing to share information and experiences freely. To encourage that, we ask the attendees not to record or republish the session. No formal minutes or records are kept, but attendees are free to keep their own notes.
Multilingual AI Round Table: Integrated AI – Deep Learning and Beyond
October 28 from 9:00am – 5:00pm
Registration Fee: $750 – full day price (lunch included).
Your registration for this session includes lunch
10% discount for 3 or more students from the same company – please contact jill@
Event description: Integrated AI – Deep Learning and Beyond
In recent years, the multilingual communication industry has witnessed remarkable achievements in human-level artificial intelligence. By training neural networks on large datasets, deep learning (e.g. genAI) has undeniably become the most impactful approach. To appropriately apply and manage AI at the enterprise level, constructive criticism such as data efficiency, generalization power, and interpretability, must be addressed. Significantly, this criticism aligns with the strengths of symbolic AI, which works by carrying out a series of logic-like reasoning steps to organize knowledge of the semantic meanings in computer systems. An integrated AI approach reconciles deep learning with symbolic AI to simulate human intelligence.
This sixth edition of the roundtable will unite AI pioneers, implementers, as well as experts from academia, to explore the frontier using both deep learning and symbolic AI to solve business problems in a reliable manner. Read this newsletter for details.
Note: To help participants better prepare for the in-person roundtable on October 28, we will offer an online (live) tutorial one week before the round table, on October 21 from 12:30 pm to 2 pm Eastern Time. This tutorial will cover fundamental concepts about deep learning and symbolic AI.
Topics to be discussed:
- Integrated AI: Implementations and Future Directions
- Intelligent Quality Control and Human Intervention
- Deep Learning and Multilingual Content: Enterprise-level Applications
- AI beyond LLMs
- Identifying Ethical AI Tools as Part of Procurement
By joining this round table, you will:
- Develop your own understanding of integrated AI
- Understand the applications of AI other than LLMs, such as knowledge graphs, taxonomies and alike
- Gather insights to apply and manage AI at the enterprise level
- Implement solutions driven by deep learning in real life business scenarios
- Discuss industry best practices to manage people and AI technologies
- Learn about future directions in the AI space
- Make valuable connections with industry peers
This round table is for:
- Decision-makers who aim to leverage AI on both strategic and operational levels
- Buyers who want to implement multilingual AI
- Project Managers tasked with implementing an MT/AI solution
- Vendors who want to leverage MT/AI to meet their clients’ needs
- IT professionals involved in MT/AI implementation
- Content Managers responsible for global content
Roundtable moderator/organizer:
Peng Wang, The Localization Institute
Advisory board members:
- Olga Beregovaya, Smartling
- Alon Lavie, Phrase/CMU
- Georg Kirchner, Dell
Speakers:
- Dr. Rachel Herwartz, TermSolutions GmbH
- Tom Bridges, CEO of CaptionHubs
- Dr. Pete Smith, Chief Data Analyst, University of Texas at Arlington
- Sheriff Mohammed Issaka, Founder & AI Research Lead, African Languages Lab (All Lab)
- Erik Vogt, Founder, Vogt Strategy
Location:
Marriott Hotel (Monterey)
350 Calle Principal, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/mryca-monterey-marriott/overview/
TermClub: Getting your Corporate Language into LLMs
October 28 from 9:00am – 5:00pm
Registration Fee: $750 – full day price (lunch included).
Your registration for this session includes lunch
10% discount for 3 or more students from the same company – please contact jill@
Generative AI has become omnipresent in corporate projects and strategies. And for many use cases, terminology, taxonomy, and structured knowledge are important as a foundation for productive use. But what does that mean for terminology management in a corporate language department?
This hands-on workshop lets you look under the hood of AI by directly engaging with AI on a deeper level than using ready-made applications like ChatGPT. This helps you understand how AI “works”, how we can influence and shape the output, and particularly how we can get your terminology and other knowledge “into” the content generated (or translated) by AI.
Localization teams are sitting on a wealth of data which can be very valuable for content-related use cases in your entire organization. And as a “language person”, you can help the AI teams in your company benefit from your data and knowledge. But you will need to collaborate with colleagues in IT and other divisions when you want to connect your terminology to the AI technologies that are being put into place. In our workshop, we will try to “translate” what your colleagues in IT and other divisions are asking from you: What is an API, what does an API call return, what is RAG, and how can I connect all this?
Let´s make sure your valuable linguistic data can be put to full use by enabling you to fully join the conversation. Let’s ride the wave of AI!
By joining this workshop, you will:
- Understand how LLMs and their base technologies work
- Understand what you can do to tweak and steer the AI output
- Understand RAG is its ability to provide more contextually relevant responses
- Understand APIs and how to work with them
- Understand questions and requirements from your IT and other divisions
- Dive into your own use cases or our sandbox use cases where terminologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs come into play with GenAI
- Build a few simple assistants in the OpenAI platform that access and process input from terminologies (using APIs or not)
- Work on fine-tuning models with corporate data like terminologies, TMs, and even just multilingual documents
Attendee Experience: Everyone.
Target Audience: Terminology or localization aficionados wanting to learn about AI and how corporate AI programs can benefit from their terminology.
Session Organizer: Klaus Fleischmann – Kaleidoscope
Host: Klaus Fleischmann – Kaleidoscope
Speakers:
- Christian Lang, Kaleidoscope
- Barbara Inge Karsch, BIK Terminology
minimum number of attendees: 5
maximum number: 15
Location:
Marriott Hotel (Monterey)
350 Calle Principal, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/mryca-monterey-marriott/overview/
Half Day Sessions – No Lunch Included
Special Half Day Session
Discount for LocWorld Attendees
Global Strategy Playbook Workshop
October 28 from 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Registration Fee: $125 if you are registered for both days of LocWorld52, $250 if you are not. Please contact jill@localizationinstitute.com for your discount code if you are registered for both days.
This session has a catered break, but lunch is not included with this session.
Have you wondered how to convince your management that your globalization or localization function contributes strategic value to the company? Maybe you’re a localization manager on the buyer side, executing more and more productively as you adopt better tools and processes. But still, you’re seen as a mere service in your organization, rather than as a strategic partner? How can you change that perception? Well, there’s a (free) book on the subject, written by a group of successful industry managers, directors, and vice presidents who have met and overcome this challenge.
We are offering a workshop with several of the authors to discuss key topics from the book.
- What does it mean to adopt a strategic approach to localization?
- We’re all supposed to be data driven now. But what data? How to get it? How to analyze it and develop appropriate plans?
- Technology continues to evolve at what sometimes seems an alarming pace. You may need a structure to help you evaluate the many possibilities.
- We have multiple stakeholders at different levels of importance and influence. How should we categorize and act on those relationships?
Attendees from both the buyer and provider sides of the industry are welcome, since the lessons from the playbook are relevant to anyone managing the many facets of localization.
One of the authors will outline a case study from the book and launch a general discussion based on specific, related questions, enlivened by the experience of the group. We plan to touch on three or four of the chapters in the book in this workshop.
Authors:
- Karen Combe, Former Vice President of Localization at PTC
- Melissa Biggs, Partner/Co-Founder at Locale Solutions
- Mimi Hills, Principal at Hillstra Associates
To download A Globalization Strategy Playbook: go to Github – https://github.com/GILT-Forum/Globalization-Strategy-Playbook/releases/tag/1.0
Format: Workshop
Location:
Middlebury Institute of International Studies
460 Pierce Street
Monterey, CA
Maximum number of attendees: 48